Remarks by Sebastian Griffin
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“Mayor? Yes? Who should we make checks out to?”
“QR code works. Yeah, I pre-wrote it, but that's fine. Oh, okay.”
“Here's the problem, Mayor. I've done away with cash and I've regressed to checks.”
“The best part of this checkbook is I don't know how to balance it. I just know how to write from it. I don't know what the back portion's for.”
“Challenge on the soup front. No. Yes. Thank you. I made it out to the chief directly. No. Thank you.”
“They need a tap. Can I tap something on the boot?”
“Yes, Councilman. Just to follow up, because they're required to carry insurance and they have a performance bond in place, how would a citizen like Councilman Reynolds be able to tap into that? Do they have to go through their own homeowner's insurance and subrogate it? Or do they go through the city to file a claim? Because that's the point of having insurance policy.”
“I think it would be well to have the staff prepare information to file a claim if there is an issue, because I would think to call the city first.”
“And I think what he was clarifying as well, from my understanding, is this is different than TDS because it'll run through the main corridors rather than through neighborhoods or lawns. Is that correct? Because I need clarification as well. So it would be different in the sense of rather than tearing up yards. But it destroys the roads, too, and they need to be sure they get repaired if there is an issue.”
“Do we need to increase the requirement on insurance? Is $2 million sufficient per occurrence or does it need to be more? Does the performance bond need to be more than $40,000? Because as the attorney stated, we have the mechanism to be able to go after these things and you're letting people know how to go through the claim process and potentially through their own subrogation process. But are the dollar amounts sufficient for the issues that we've had arise so far?”
“Mayor? Yes. I just need one clarification from Councilman Reynolds because I think he has direct experience with this. Was the claim amount sufficient? Did you file a claim? Was there something that we should be doing in this contract to enhance that from your experience?”
“Mayor, for clarification from our attorney, please. Okay. Is there anything in this agreement that you see that stands out from your knowledge base that we need to change?”
“Thank you. Any questions for Rodney? Yes, Mayor. Okay. Councilman? In terms of the annexation for Midway Park, is that contingent on the other approvals of any other properties?”
“Thank you, Mark. I just have a few comments, if I could, just for preparation for staff while they're making those revisions. If it would have gotten brought forward tonight, Mark, I would have been a no. And the reason being, even after the changes, I know you had emailed them to me right before this council meeting, and thank you for that. So I was running through it. A few things that I want to point out from my perspective, whether it's tonight or in November, still give me pause. The overnight language I think is going to be an issue. The one food truck per parcel was something that…”
“They need to uphold the law so if the law ends up being they shouldn't be there overnight, so be it. But I think punishing the property owner's Because we've overreached is one thing, and punishing them for unhealth, sanitation, obstruction of view issue is a whole other. So those were the eight I flagged. You know where I stand on it. I'm just giving you a warm heads up for November. I won't be supportive if that remains to be there.”
“Seeing none, any other comments from our applicants? Mayor? Yes. I do just have one question for them if one of them wants to come up or not or anything along those lines. So the application, the title is specifically for annexation to access sewer. Do you have a well currently on site and you're aware you're going to have to abandon that as well?”
“Part of the very first condition says any wells on site need to be abandoned.”
“Can you go back one slide, please? Recommended conditions of approval. Any on-site wells no longer proposed for use on the property shall be abandoned and or removed in accordance with local and state regulations.”
“Thank you. I just had clarification, so now you have clarification. I think we're all good to go. Thank you. Blood pressure go up at all?”
“Anyone else have any questions or comments? Sabrina, good job as usual. The only concern I do have, and I know there's City of Caldwell, so maybe it shouldn't carry as much weight, but it still does for me. Lots 11 through 19 were brought up by Councilmember Rodriguez. Right now we have nine lots sharing space with five neighboring lots. Is there any way that the developer can reduce four of those lots so it's one neighbor to one neighbor rather than two neighbors to one neighbor?”
“I even gave you an inch on the most northern eastern portion. There's two that overlap, and I think the trailer park is that curved portion.”
“The rest are the remaining parcels. 11 and 12, I would recommend converting into one. 13 and 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and then 19 standalone, because then it's neighbor, neighbor, neighbor, neighbor, neighbor, five neighbors, and one trailer park sharing in the back. Right. I don't know if you're able to zoom it in there. My only concern is... Once again, when we are thinking about growth and our growing pattern, it feels not conducive to me to force two neighbors behind a single. The rest of the development looks very well thought out, and this was very well thought out. It's just a concern that…”
“You always do a good sell and, I tell all the other applicants they should hire Sabrina because you do a good job, and I believe you're thoughtful in your development. Thank you so much. That's just one consideration. Okay.”
“Just another quick question for staff now that I'm thinking about it. Was anyone in the city of Caldwell given notice? I know that the neighboring properties, maybe to the east, were they mail letting them know about the public hearing or was it only to city residents?”
“Could we potentially make a few larger lots and scale back some of the green space and connect down southerly to add more housing units? My thought is maybe one day those lots will all redevelop into apartments, maybe. But in the meantime, to have the potential of conflicts between not only neighbor to neighbor, but 2v1 just is something that I consistently tried to avoid. I think our council has consistently tried to avoid. And if there is area with 0.5% of that green space, maybe scaling down, maximizing on the one side, scaling down on the other to allow for more units that direction,…”